Road charges to fill £40bn black hole?

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Originally Posted by Nobby

Which makes you wonder why so many people were against a national ID card. Costly to set up but could have so many advantages. Other European countries have them and a legal requirement to carry at all times yet here its seen as big brother and an infringement of ones civil liberties. What tosh

Other European countries may have them, but they are able to use them in lieu of passports - which under the proposals we would not be able to do, also they are issued for free where as our government wanted to charge us about £60 each for one!